April Bindery Update

The latest on book production at the bindery

1. We have retained a lawyer in the appropriate jurisdiction and will be sending a formal letter to the party responsible for destroying the eight volumes of the Junior Classics that were printed and being stored for binding the week after next. If this second request is ignored as the first was, we will proceed to filing a lawsuit. None of this will delay the production of the leather editions of volumes 9 and 10, which have already been printed and will be made into book blocks in May and bound in June.

2. We managed to repair the broken foil feed on our 1950s-era stamping machine, so we now have two fully-functioning stamping machines. The primary machine was still working, but operating it without a foil feed slowed the process down considerably. Perhaps more importantly, we now have a local engineer who now knows the machine in case of future problems.

3. We sold the original foil stamper that didn’t suit our production needs for only a 15 percent loss. This means we wound up with two machines that much better suit our purposes for half the net cost of the original machine. So it all worked out in the end, and we now have a much, much better grasp of how everything actually works throughout the entire bookmaking process as well as complete control over every aspect of it.

4. The cases for DRACULA have now been made; the new casemaker is everything we hoped it would be, so thanks to everyone who bought a Signed First Edition to make that possible. The cases will be stamped, hubbed, and the book blocks will be bound next week.

5. The book blocks for De Bello Gallico, The History of Florence, and The History of the Freedom of Thought have all arrived. The leathers will be cut out and the cases will start being made the week after next.

6. The book blocks for The Everlasting Man and one other Library book will arrive next week.

7. Four more books are being printed next week.